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Daily JavaScript Challenge #JS-122: Find Maximum Difference Between Consecutive Elements

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Daily JavaScript Challenge: Find Maximum Difference Between Consecutive Elements

Hey fellow developers! 👋 Welcome to today's JavaScript coding challenge. Let's keep those programming skills sharp!

The Challenge

Difficulty: Medium

Topic: Array Manipulation

Description

Write a function that accepts an array of integers and returns the maximum difference between any two consecutive elements in the array. If the array has less than two elements, return 0.

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Alex Lohr • 
const maxStep = (numbers) => Math.max(
  ...numbers.reduce((steps, value, index) =>
    index
    ? [...steps, Math.abs(value - numbers[index - 1])]
    : steps, [])
);
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Ravindra Kumar •

Good 👍

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